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Données personnelles Alfonso II of NAPLES 

• Il est né le 4 novembre 1448 dans Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy.
• Titre: King of Naples
• (Alternative Name) : Alfonso of Aragon.
• Il est décédé le 18 décembre 1495 dans Messina, Sicilia, Italy, il avait 47 ans.
• Il est enterré en l'an 1495 dans Messina Cathedral, Messina, Sicilia, Italy.
• Un enfant de Ferdinand I of NAPLES et Isabella de CLERMONT

Famille de Alfonso II of NAPLES

(1) Il est marié avec Ippolita Maria SFORZA.

Ils se sont mariés le 10 octobre 1465 à Milan, Lombardia, Italy, il avait 16 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Piero di ROSSANO  1472-1491
2. Isabella of NAPLES  1470-1524 
3. Ferdinand II of NAPLES  1469-1496

(2) Il avait une relation avec Trogia GAZZELA.

Enfant(s):

1. Alfonso d'ARAGON  1481-1500

Notes par Alfonso II of NAPLES

Alfonso II (4 November 1448 - 18 December 1495), also called Alfonso of Aragon, was King of Naples from 25 January 1494 to 22 February 1495 with the title King of Naples and Jerusalem. As Duke of Calabria he was a patron of Renaissance poets and builders during his tenure as the heir to the throne of Naples.

Born at Naples, Alfonso was the eldest child of Ferdinand I of Naples by his first wife, Isabella of Clermont. She was the daughter of Tristan, Count of Copertino and Caterina Del Balzo Orsini. Alfonso was the cousin of Ferdinand II of Aragon, king of Aragon and the first (co-)ruler of a unified Spain. His teacher was the humanist Giovanni Pontano, whose De splendore describes the proper virtues and manner of life becoming to a prince.

When his mother Isabella of Clermont died (1465), he succeeded to her feudal claims, which included the Brienne claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

In 1463, when Alfonso was fifteen, his great-uncle Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto, died, and he obtained some lands from the inheritance. Alfonso had shown himself a skilled and determined soldier, helping his father in the suppression of the Conjure of the Barons (1485) and in the defence of the Kingdom's territory against the Papal claims.

As a condottiero, he fought in the most important wars of the age, such the war following the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478-1480) and the War of Ferrara (1482-1484).

Alfonso's reign was destined to be short. When his father died, the kingdom's finances were exhausted and the invasion of King Charles VIII of France was imminent; Charles (instigated by Lodovico Sforza, who wished to stir up trouble to allow him to seize power in Milan) had decided to reassert the Angevin claim to Naples and the accompanying title of King of Jerusalem.

Charles invaded Italy in September, 1494. Alfonso managed to regain the support of Pope Alexander VI, who invited Charles to devote his effort against the Turks instead. Alfonso received the official Papal coronation as Rex Siciliae on May 8, 1494 from Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor, previously the papal legate to Alfonso II.

However, the King of France did not relent; by early 1495 Charles was approaching Naples, after having defeated Florence and the Neapolitan fleet under Alfonso's brother, Frederick of Calabria at Porto Venere. Alfonso, terrified by a series of portents, as well as unusual dreams (perhaps attributable to memories of his victims), abdicated in favour of his son, Ferdinand or Ferrandino, and fled, entering a Sicilian monastery. He died in Messina later that year.

Like his father, Alfonso married twice. His first wife was Ippolita Maria Sforza, whom he married on 10 October 1465 in Milan. His mistress, by whom he also had children, was Trogia Gazzela.

He had three children with Ippolita:

King Ferdinand II of Naples (26 August 1469 - October 1496), married Joanna of Naples
Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Bari and Princess of Bari (2 October 1470 - 11 February 1524), married her first cousin Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, by whom she had issue, including Bona Sforza (13 February 1495 - 7 November 1558) Queen consort of King Sigismund I of Poland, who in her turn had six children.
Piero of Rossano, Prince of Rossano (31 March 1472 - 17 February 1491), Lieutenant General of Apulia, died of an infection following leg surgery.

and two with Trogia:
Sancha of Aragon (born 1478 in Gaeta)
Alfonso, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno (born 1481, in Naples)
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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